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Just a day after the Foundation’s statement was published, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced on Twitter that a suspect, so far identified only by the initials H. A., had been detained in connection with the death threats issued against the Foundation. Turkish media reports suggest that the suspect had been influenced, at least in part, by the views of his girlfriend from Azerbaijan, where anti-Armenian sentiment is widespread. H. A., who is believed to have a prior criminal record, reportedly faces more than seven years in prison if found guilty of sending death threats.

Pashinyan is now projecting that Armenia will grapple with the disease “for at least a year”. Nevertheless, and in spite of the continuing rise in the number of infections, the government recently loosened most of the coronavirus-related restrictions on economic and social activity that it put in place in mid-March.

Since mid-April, the HALO Trust, a UK-based landmine clearance organization, has expanded its activities in Nagorno-Karabakh to help combat the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the region. Since the territory reported its first cluster of cases last month, HALO has worked to deliver personal protective equipment to hospitals and clinics in Nagorno-Karabakh and provide hygiene kits and essential supplies to more than 100 households.